This is a list of treaties that address issues of nuclear technology, including nuclear weapons, their delivery systems, and nuclear energy. The date is given for the signature of each treaty, not its entry into force. This does not include non-treaties such as secret agreements.
Nuclear weapons
Arms limitation 1968, multilateral: Outer Space Treaty - banned stationing nuclear weapons in space 1971, multilateral: Seabed Arms Control Treaty - banned nuclear weapons on international ocean floor 1972, US-USSR: Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty - limited parties to two ABM complexes of 100 missiles each 1987, US-USSR: Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - banned ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges 500–5,500 km 1990, multilateral: Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany - banned nuclear weapons stationing in the new states of Germany 1991, US-USSR: START I - limited party deployed warheads to 6,000 and ICBM plus bomber total to 1,600 1992, US-Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan-Ukraine: Lisbon Protocol - bound all states to START I and committed Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty 1993, US-Russia: START II - banned MIRVs proposed, US-Russia: START III - would have limited party deployed warheads to 2,500, 2,000, or 1,500 2002, US-Russia: Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty - limited party deployed warheads to 2,200 2010, US-Russia: New START - limited party deployed strategic warheads to 1,550 2017, multilateral: Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons - banned all nuclear weapons for parties
Testing 1963, multilateral: Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - banned non-underground nuclear tests 1974, US-USSR: Threshold Test Ban Treaty - banned nuclear weapons tests over 150 kt 1976, US-USSR: Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty - banned peaceful nuclear explosions over 150 kt 1996, multilateral: Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty - banned all types of nuclear tests
Nuclear weapon-free zones 1959, multilateral: Antarctic Treaty System 1967, multilateral: Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco) 1985, multilateral: South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Rarotonga) 1995, multilateral: Southeast Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Bangkok Treaty) 1996, multilateral: African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Pelindaba) 1998, multilateral: Mongolian Nuclear-Weapons-Free Status 2006, multilateral: Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone (Treaty of Semipalatinsk)
Nuclear energy 1968, multilateral: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons - banned pursuit of nuclear weapons by parties 1994, US-DPRK: Agreed Framework - froze North Korea's nuclear program and began KEDO civil nuclear cooperation 2005, US-India: India–United States Civil Nuclear Agreement - established IAEA safeguards on civil nuclear facilities in India and began US civil nuclear cooperation 2009, France-Pakistan: France–Pakistan Atomic Energy Framework - established IAEA safeguards on civil nuclear facilities in Pakistan 2009, US-UAE: U.S.–UAE 123 Agreement for Peaceful Civilian Nuclear Energy Cooperation 2015, multilateral: Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action - limited Iran's civil nuclear program in return for nuclear-related sanction relief
Other 1992, multilateral: Treaty on Open Skies - allowed for aerial surveillance flights
Proposed 1979, multilateral: Treaty on the Prohibition of the Development, Manufacture, Stockpiling and Use of Radiological Weapons - would ban radiological weapons, drafted by Conference on Disarmament. 1994, P5 states: Draft Treaty on No-First Use of Nuclear Weapons - would commit the five NPT-recognized nuclear-weapon states to not use any form of nuclear weapon first strike, submitted by China.
See also List of nuclear weapons List of nuclear weapons tests Timeline of nuclear weapons development Timeline of nuclear power Timeline of nuclear fusion
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